Rebecca Fordon

Projects

Most of this is open source on GitHub. Tools hosted on Render sleep when idle and can take up to a minute to wake.

Teaching tools

Small, single-purpose web apps built for my legal research and legal technology courses. Most were vibe-coded in an afternoon; several are described in the writing.

  • Citation Hallucination Game

    Classroom exercise where students read a brief and decide, citation by citation, which cases are real and which were fabricated by an AI.

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  • Prompt Coach

    Split-panel workspace: students chat with Claude on the left and get feedback on the prompt itself on the right, including a hallucination-risk review.

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  • Boolean Builder

    Walks a researcher through building a terms-and-connectors search step by step. The "Effortless Boolean" tool from the blog.

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  • Token Explorer

    Token-by-token probability visualizer that makes model uncertainty visible. Low-confidence case names and docket numbers light up in orange and pink.

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  • Document Technology Gallery

    Seven short interactive demos of the document tools lawyers actually use: automation, clause libraries, AI-assisted editing, comparison, and more.

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  • Spreadsheet Sandbox

    Interactive lessons on Excel text functions for law students who will spend more time in spreadsheets than they expect.

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  • Career Landscape

    Explorer for how AI is changing different legal career paths, for students deciding where to point themselves.

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  • DHS AI Explorer

    Interactive explorer for the Department of Homeland Security AI use-case inventory, with watchdog annotations and bias-taxonomy flags.

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Research tooling and side projects

Things I built on my own time: open tools for legal research on public data, mostly the Free Law Project’s CourtListener, and other side projects.

  • The Missing Link

    Browser extension that finds the case an article mentioned but did not link, using Claude to identify it and CourtListener to fetch it.

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  • Citation Verifier

    Checks AI-generated case citations against CourtListener: does the cite exist, does it belong to the case named, and does the case support the proposition it is cited for.

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  • Docket Q&A

    Ask questions of bankruptcy case documents pulled from the RECAP Archive.

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  • Bankruptcy Canvas

    Spatial research canvas for Title 11. A former bankruptcy lawyer’s way of seeing the Code as a map rather than a list.

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  • Caselaw Brief

    Skill trainer for briefing real cases with scaffolding, Socratic cold-calls, and AI feedback that never writes the brief for you.

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  • Biblioviewer

    Turns an annotated bibliography into one self-contained HTML file with a sidebar, reading pane, and cached article snapshots.

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  • Teaching Explainer

    Claude skill that generates accessible, interactive HTML explainers for law school courses, with the pedagogy research behind it.

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Just for fun

Games and small things built with my kid, or just for fun.